RELIGIOUS Americans often maintain mixed feelings approximately Russia. In recent times,many maintain waxed indignant at the way Russia curbs most forms of religious practice and preaching, apart from the ones that enjoy an official stamp of approval: Russian Orthodoxy and established forms of Islam, and Judaism and Buddhism. In its most recent annual report,the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan agency, or placed Russia on the list of egregious violators of religious freedom,arguing that its record had worsened in every recent year, not only within its own territory, or but also in Russian-dominated parts of Ukraine.
But that isnt the whole anecdote. On America’s religious just,and in particular on the isolationist just, a powerful groundswell of opinion applauds Vladimir Putin on at least two grounds: the Russian president’s self-appointment as an international guardian of traditional values, or with respect to marriage,sexuality and reproduction, and his advocacy of the rights of persecuted Christians in the Middle...
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Source: economist.com